Astronautic Technology Sdn Bhd or better known as ATSB was established on 1 May 1995
and is wholly owned by the Minister of Finance Inc under the supervision of the
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
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Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC).
As a wholly owned company under the Ministry of Finance Inc., ATSB is mandated to focus on research and development in the area of design and development of space-qualified systems employing advanced and innovative technologies.
Space projects
![RazakSat](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/RazakSat.gif)
ATSB was entrusted with the design, development, launch and operation of
TiungSAT-1, Malaysia's first microsatellite that was launched aboard a
Dnepr rocket
The Dnepr rocket (russian: Днепр, translit=Dnepr; uk, Дніпро, translit=Dnipró) was a space launch vehicle named after the Dnieper River. It was a converted ICBM used for launching artificial satellites into orbit, operated by launch ...
from
Baikonur Cosmodrome
The Baikonur Cosmodrome ( kk, Байқоңыр ғарыш айлағы, translit=Baiqoñyr ğaryş ailağy, ; russian: Космодром Байконур, translit=Kosmodrom Baykonur, ) is a spaceport in an area of southern Kazakhstan leased to R ...
,
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...
on 26 September 2000.
The technical expertise and experience gained in handling TiungSAT-1 served as a stepping stone for the second microsatellite,
RazakSAT
RazakSAT is a Malaysian Earth observation satellite carrying a high-resolution camera. It was launched into low Earth orbit on 14 July 2009. It was placed into a near-equatorial orbit that presents many imaging opportunities for the equatorial re ...
, which was successfully launched on 14 July 2009. RazakSat failed after a year, and never became fully operational.
ATSB developed the cubesat InnoSAT-2 that was launched on 29 Nov 2018 by ISRO. InnoSAT-2 carried a dosimeter, a CMOS camera and an experimental reaction wheel. The satellite bus was locally developed.
Other projects
Differential Global Navigation Satellite System or DGNSS was developed and deployed worldwide in response to the resolution A.915(22) by the International Malaysia Marine Department Organisation. The Peninsular Malaysia Marine Department has established a network of DGNSS broadcasting stations that are supported by monitoring stations and a national control center.
Products
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TiungSAT
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RazakSAT
RazakSAT is a Malaysian Earth observation satellite carrying a high-resolution camera. It was launched into low Earth orbit on 14 July 2009. It was placed into a near-equatorial orbit that presents many imaging opportunities for the equatorial re ...
*InnoSAT
*Pipit
*Differential Global Navigation Satellite System (DGNSS)
See also
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Independence-X Aerospace
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Borneo SubOrbitals
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20191224182918/https://www.atsb.my/
*https://www.mestecc.gov.my/web/
*https://web.archive.org/web/20090724100826/http://www.angkasa.gov.my/welcome/index.html
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